Burner.



A. G. SHERMAN.

BURNERp KRPLICATION FILED DST-10. I911.

Patented Feb. 19,1918,

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anemone i OF DETROIT, HIICHIG, ASSIGNOB TO DETROIT VAPOR STOVE COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIG 7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent Feb. 19, 1918.

Application filed October 10, 1917. Serial No. 195,800.

the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such, as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference be ng had to the accompanying drawings, whlch form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to heavy hydrocarbon burners, and has for its object a pming arrangement which allows the introduction of a more volatile fluid to the burner for heating it before the heavy hydrocarbon is burned. Priming arrangements for this purpose are not new but the priming arrangement in this connection is both efiicient and very cheap-to construct and results in a very large manufacturing saving where the productmn is-large.

In the drawings,-

Figure 1, is a side elevation. 0

Fig. 2, is a plan view.

Fi 3, is a detail in section.

a is the stove frame which supports the usual grate b and a hydrocarbon burner e. The fuel is fed to the hydrocarbon burner through. a main d which is provided with the usual T-like pipe e that acts also as a housing for the needle valve f. A pipe such as g has usually been employed to complete the line from the main to the burner. It has usually been customary to employ a separate priming conduit to take the priming fluid from the priming basin to the stove.

I accomplish'the same result in a very satisfactory way and do away with the necessity of tapping the burner twice for two separate fuel lines and using two separate fuel lines by inserting a T-union in the line between the fitting e and the pipe 9. However, by simply inserting' a T-union and screwing the two pipes into the threads at the ends of the head of. the T- the results G. SHERMAN, I

would not be very good because the fluid would first drop on the threads in the T- union until it overflowed the threads and ran into the pipe 9 where it would accumulate and result in irregular delivery of fuel to the burner.

I avoid this disadvantage by screwing bot-h pipe ends tightly up against each other and then boring a hole through the end of effect above alluded to, a

z designates the priming basin which is.

screwed to the frame ofthe store at. 7', leaving a portion of the priming basin exposed so that the priming fluid ma be easily turned into it. The priming asin has a small nozzle or teat k soldered in place which may be simply dropped in the opening in the upright portion of the T-union.

From the foregoing it is evident that it is very easy to disassemble the priming basin and the rest of the priming arrangement and that the entire device is very cheap to manufacture.

What I claim is:

1. The combination of a burner, a valve housing having a valve seat and screw-' of the pipe and valve housing screw-threaded being adjacent to each other, a T-union into which the two threaded ends of the ipe and valve housing engage, and a priming basin having a depending teat which can be dropped into the opening of the upright of the T-union.

2. The combination of a burner, a valve housing provided with a valve seat screwthreaded on one end, a valve located therein and seating upon the valve seat in the housing, a pipe having a threaded end adapted to act as a continuation of the line through the valve housing, a T-union into the opposed ends of which the two threaded ends 4 menses of the T, and a priming basin roviciefi with e -a tea-t adapted to engage in t e opening in the upright portion of the T-umon.

In testimony whereof,'I sign this Specifi- 10 cation.

' ALVIN .G. SHERMAN. 

